biden will obviously not. there is a lot of chatter about him, is he keeping his options open? he had iowans and new hampshire and democrats over to his house, over the, you know, weekend. and i think that he is not going to challenge her. if she runs, he will not. who knows, both may not run, but it is a bit of intrigue. >> chris: why do you think the president -- it was his decision -- why do you think he wanted to get engaged in this kind of an event. >> i mean, part of it might have been to build on hillary clinton's progress, this week on the hill and benghazi, to put it behind us. she was actually remarkable in it there, in that she went in, the republicans were fairly unprepared to move her off of her talking points. they had built this up for months and were finally going to get the answers on benghazi and nothing came out of that, really and they didn't manage to put benghazi into the broader context of the president's weak foreign policy which i'll be important to them when they deal, for instance wi